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Altehes debut album comes across as an earthy mix of Acoustic Neurosis & tribal downbeat folk rippling with beautiful and dark forestall undertones. This is music of the elements and their spirits. Worn by wind, born from fire, buried and resrected in black forests. Striped down and barren, but often embellished and illuminated by cello and violin. It seems detached from our time and culture, this is music of a superstitious and deeply dark religious forest dweller's.
Laurence English is as far as I can determine and Australian sound artist who constructs wild imaginary landscapes of drone, electronics and a large array of field recordings.
Ohne Titel, 1916 is a emotional collection of fragile melodic patterns, played out on basic piano and keyboard with some very slight electronic treatment, there’s a real feeling of honest depth and great sorrow. Written after the death of his day old daughter Fanny, it puts across the feeling of emotional numbness and learning to coping with the passing of a loved one.
Radiorgasm is a reissue of sudden infants dada & suffocating take on noise, original released in ltd no 323 vinyl format. Here for the first time for all to go slowly mad to, taken direct from the original master tapes. All the hall marks of sudden infants sound is already fully formed: dizzy brain melting noise, odd environmental sounds and strange ambience, gurgling, chocking and other body sounds. And all manner of other strange stuff, that is grantee to really mess you head up and no doubt utter the odd dark chuckle.
Meditate/ Mutilate seems to pull off perfectly the mix between of seething industlised noise and more sinister creepy dark ambient tones. Even when your ears are been flayed by coarse electronics and sit down and sufer pain vocal over load, ripple underneath is a sickly stream of grim ambience. Like a maggot stenched water, trickling under a site of a vast over kill.
Who the heck is Michael Perilstein and what’s this all about?, I hear you ask, well Mr Perilstein makes bad cheesy sounding soundtracks for micro budget B movies like: Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Beavergate(!?) and The deadly spawn, etc. As well as releasing rather strange concept album, one which was released on the Residents label Ralph records. So really you know you’re in for an odd and different time from the outset.
Plexus II is a collection of slowly unfolding string patterns electronically looped together. Giving a great air of decaying splendour , much like a cobweb spun and dust deep , once grand mansion, a melancholy dream world of broken dreams and fading beauty .
Hot Wings comes across as a long lost album by a 70’s rock/ blues mixing together a feeling of The Free, Stepping Wolf, Thin Lizzy, with Jimi Hendrix funk-rock guitar edge. Even the production has really nice 70’s vibe: a wonderful, raw and under-produced quality.
Tone of Finland spreads across two disks a remixed version of Elliot Sharpe’s soundtrack for the 1991 documentary about gay artist and icon Tom of Finland, which appears on the second disk. On the first disk we get Reinterpretation and remixes of the original soundtrack by eight Finish electronic artists, including a track by Mika Vainio of Pan-sonic.
You’ve got to understand people in Finland, they are dangerous. They say they buy guns to go and hunt elks but what they really are after is my colleague, Mr. Monti. Let me make myself clearer: a year or so ago, the man was sent a couple of CD’s released by Onyxia, a Finnish label. He gladly welcomed the gift but never reviewed the damn things.
Feels like home is the fourth album by Toledo based singer songwriter Jessica Bailiff, her other three albums have also been released by Kranky.
This third collaboration between Wolf eyes and John Wiese starts off in surprisingly calm, but still disturbed waters. For at least the first half of the track you feel like you’ve been dropped on some strange always dusk planet, shapes and objects appear from out of the half light.
Kosmista Noisea is yet another exhilarating trip into electro buzzing, rhythmic and noise flecked future city scapes. It almost feel like you’ve plugged into some virtual reality consol for the ears. And if you shut your eyes you almost become one with the sleek, neo. And steel and glass city scapes.
Thousands of dead Gods is purely a buzzing static storm of noise, or a huge impregnable wall of pure head melting noise, that last for near on an hour then spits you out at the end. Apparently sourced from shark noises, by the end of this you’ll feel like you’ve been inside a vast shark’s digestive system, and then shot out the other end.
Joe lally’s Debut Album There to here, comes off like the work of a more geeky, nasally and up type Lou Reed. with lots and lots of bass heavy songs, Not surprising really since Lally was the bass player in punk cult band Fugazi. It sure does have some rewarding moments along the way, though one does feel a little bass tired by the end of it all.
Meek Warrior is a really mixed bag, both in musically style and I’m sad to say quality wise as well . When Akron Family shine they really do, everything fits into place and their music is an enjoyable place to be. But when they try to over stretch themselves and try too many things at once or attempt styles they clear only have vague notion of, it all goes wrong.
Moss & memory is knee-deep with dark ritual forest air, you can almost smell the due heavy pine tree, feel the moss carpet under you, feel the coarse bark against your hands. It’s all brought into ever-green existence with a mix of barren acoustic guitar work, epic almost post rock structures, dank ambience, funeral drones and all manner of darkly hazed folk instrumentation. All tipped with atmospheric bird and nature samples, making a truly spine tingling trip into the dark spirit of the forest.
Specification. Fifteen grows in shape and form slowly from silence, slowly the shape and definition the drones and electronics become clear, but never too defined. This is the real definition of ambient music, at normal stereo volume it just paints the rooms tone in soothing pastel colours, like autumnal first light just lighting the room.
Mono are a rather unique entity in that they hail from Japan yet play a form of metalized orchestral post rock. This unique status has garnered them with much attention over their short five year career. Their debut was released on John Zorns Tzadik label (A shock decision for a label more used to releasing the cream of the worlds avant-garde and Jazz music) Steve Albini produced their last album and takes the reigns again for this album the evocatively titled You are there.
They is a grating and burning, tone shifting beast of a noise release, Surprisingly coming from a females firey mind, giving prove positive that women can conjure up just tortures and dense take on noise as their male counterparts.
We very much take for granted our hearts and all the criss cross of network of veins that pump blood around our bodies, every second and every breath is decided by your blood flow. This is what Daniel Menche investigates on Jugularis, the rhythm and its many textures of pumping blood. It’s like you've been shrunk down, then injected into a body.You travel along, the many by ways of it’s arterially systems.
The title of Scene memory is very apt for this collection of guitar mood pieces, which dips into drifting and often melancholy sound scapes, literal linking a memory of a scene or event to one’s mind. Leo Abrahams has worked with Brian Eno among others, and this clearly has the air and quality of some of eno’s work, But Abrahams has managed to cast his own beautiful and poignant light upon these tracks .
Theme’s second album investigates nicely defined filmatic, ambient and drone textures. Utilizing electronics, sitar, Indian pipes, piano, violin etc. Making a album of pieces that conjures up vast often half-lit landscapes and strange uncharted lands, to loose ones self in.
Using Italian horror and zombie films and their soundtracks as an influence. Along with drone , folk,electronic, rock elements, to Conceive a wonderfully eerier and water bound concept album about a zombie attack on the high seas.